Structure of the Team

The Team Distribution

  • Auckland 6
  • Lincoln 3
  • Te Puke 2
  • Palmerston North 2.5

Origins

  • China
  • New Zealand
  • England
  • Scotland
  • France
  • Sri Lanka
  • USA
  • Germany

Social Aspects

  • 30% Women
  • Age evenly distributed from mid 20s to 60s

Dimensions of Support

Species

Supported Research Areas

  • Plant breeding / new cultivars
  • Animal breeding
  • Human gut health
  • Bioprotection
  • Soil sciences

Supported Fields

  • Genome Assembly eukaryotes/prokaryotes
  • Gene prediction
  • Pan genomes
  • Variant Calling (SNPs, Transposons, …)
  • Metagenomics
  • Small/Micro RNA
  • Gene Expression Analysis

Technologies

  • Short read genome assembly (Illumina)
  • Long Read Genome assembly (PacBio, minion)
  • GBS
  • Capture sequencing
  • RNAseq
  • Trinotate
  • Machine learning / neural nets
  • Augustus, BRAKER2

Summary

  • Large team distributed across the country
  • High diversity of poeple and capabilities

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